Socialist Faction of Johore

The Socialist Faction was an informal grouping of socialist politicians in the Johor Sultanate that was active from 1860 to 1914. The faction was composed of Marxist laborers and intellectuals who supported overthrowing the absolute monarchy of Johore and replacing it with a proletarian dictatorship. The Socialist Faction opposed foreign trade, supported a planned economy, advocated for the secularization of the strongly Islamic country, supported full citizenship rights for minorities and immigrants, and opposed high military spending. The faction did not have much support among the aristocracy due to its anti-aristocratic views, and it dissolved in 1914.